Running Uphill: The Fast, Short Life of Canadian Champion Harry Jerome

by Fil Fraser

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Running Uphill showcases Harry Jerome's race upon the treadmill of 'race, ' where progress against racism is glacial, even for an Olympic sprinter. Fil Fraser explains this pernicious irony, this very Canadian paradox, in masterful, beautiful prose. His humour is a razor; his honesty is a guillotine. In Fraser's bio, heroic Jerome looms larger than life and too fast for anyone to weight him down with labels. George Elliott Clarke, Laureate, 2005-08...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1896124135

ISBN13:9781896124131

Release Date:April 2007

Publisher:Dragon Hill Publishing

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"

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